Experience

• Assistant Professor, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany. (Nov 2022 - present)

• Senior Researcher, L3S Research Center, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany. (Jul 2022 - Oct 2022)

• Post Doctoral Researcher, Chair for Computational Social Science and Humanities, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. (Mar 2018 - Jun 2022)

• Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. (Sep 2012 - Feb 2018)

• ICTP-IAEA STEP Fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy. (May 2016 - Jul 2016)

• ICTP-IAEA STEP Fellow, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy. (May 2015 - Jul 2015)

• Simons Visitor, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy. (May 2014 - Jul 2014)

Academic achievements

• Awarded ERS seed grant at RWTH Aachen for "Interpretable machine learning models" 2020-21

• Awarded SIGIR Travel grant for attending JCDL 2017

• Selected for JCDL 2017 doctoral consortium

• Selected for ICTP/IAEA Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP)

• Awarded Microsoft Travel grant for attending Netscicom 2015

• Awarded honourable mentions for best poster at TechVista 2013 organized by Microsoft Research India.

• Ranked 15th (among 650,000) in the state of West Bengal in Madhyamik (secondary) Examination.

PC member/Reviewer

• ACL 2023, Senior PC AAAI 2023-2024, EMNLP 2022-2023, WSDM 2022-2023, WebConf 2022-2023, IJCAI 2020, AAAI 2021 - 2022, TWEB, EPJ Data science, EPJ-B, PeerJ Computer Science, Patterns

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